Herbert Spencer
  • Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

  • Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

  • Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

  • An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

  • The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.